GitLab Act 2: Still an Open Book (opens in new tab)

GitLab’s “Act 2” announcement is about a lot more than layoffs or AI agents.This feels like a defining moment for a company that helped shape DevOps culture itself.The real question:Can GitLab reinvent itself for the agentic era without losing the operational philosophy that made people trust it in the first place?I took a deep dive into:Sid Sijbrandij’s original visionGitLab’s “open book” cultureBrendan O’Leary’s critiqueReddit operator reactionsand what this says about the future of DevOps ...